12 provinces in 8 days

**futianshenzhen** · 09-10-2013, 08:18 AM

Some panoramas from the tunnels

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**futianshenzhen** · 09-10-2013, 08:47 AM

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**bikerdoc** · 09-10-2013, 10:12 AM

Originally Posted by modron

This sums China up pretty good ;)

Ahhh nope...

Originally Posted by futianshenzhen

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Just endless shit...depressing really

this sums up Ch!na pretty darn good IMO.

**futianshenzhen** · 09-10-2013, 10:25 AM

Anyone know why some stitched photos upload while some don't? The last one was 8.2 MB and was fine and now much smaller files won't play ball. I've even reduced them to less than one MB and still no joy! They are JPG files

**futianshenzhen** · 09-10-2013, 11:14 AM

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**futianshenzhen** · 09-12-2013, 02:24 AM

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The evening after my crash

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The baijiu boys

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Rack bodge

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In the light of day I could see that the rack was completely fucked from yesterday's crash, I bodged it with cable ties and it seemed kind of OK.

Left 7.45, copper stopped me in town so I opened my visor spoke English, he waved me on and I made great time on some good if boring roads mixed with dangerous villages and dodgy junctions. My GPS packed up in Shuyang and went round in circles for a hour, after getting back on track I flew through Huaiha and continued making good ground. Fucking sweltering heat, went through a 10 minute shower that cooled me down and just kept pushing on, whenever I stopped for ice cream or drinks the sweat was just running off me so got back on the bike pretty quick. There really wasn't anything to see or enjoy, the whole area seemed like the armpit of China to me – apologies if you happen to live there but then i'd have to ask WHY??

Went past Hung-tse lake but couldn't see much cos of the smog so pushed on to Dingyuan and then Feidong near Hefei.

**futianshenzhen** · 09-12-2013, 02:30 AM

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Oooops!

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**futianshenzhen** · 09-12-2013, 02:35 AM

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A bridge was under repair so an off road adventure was required

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yep you guessed it....more dreadful shite

**futianshenzhen** · 09-12-2013, 02:41 AM

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Left at 9, after rebodging the rack with shit loads of cable ties. Mostly ok straight roads with some beat up sections until Wuhu where I had to take a ferry. The toll dude invited me into his air conditioned hut and asked me what min zhu we have in England, then his burly mate said our skin looks the same so why are we called yellow and you white. Didn't really know how go answer either of those questions so he continued with whether I thought China was a bad place, and whether anyone had ever tried to mug me. No I said, but you pikeys would try given half the chance! I retreated back to the bike, better to endure the heat than getting slapped in a tiny toll booth!

Good dual carriageway for a lot of the way to Shaghai, the G318 was excellent. It was very hot in the city, like riding into a hair dryer. My phone died again due to the heat but came back to life after sunset. Arrived at Tom's lockup at 7.20 and went on a well earned 48 hour piss up!

Thanks to Craig and all the Shanghai crowd for the amazing welcome and Tom for putting me up.

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Little pontoon bridge

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Hung-tse lake

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Rain and sun at the same time

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Locals on the ferry to Wuhu